Frank Wilczek

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5 total works indexed

1. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

   · 2012 · cited 28,472x

2. Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

   · 1988 · cited 16,588x

3. Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

   · 2002 · cited 15,922x

4. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,767x

5. NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes

   · 1995 · cited 13,793x

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Quotes

• “Quite undeservedly, the ether has acquired a bad name.”
• “The answer to the ancient question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”
• “Exoplanet astronomy will systematically survey our galaxy, gathering information on the masses, orbits, geology, and atmospheres of millions of planets. As a byproduct, we will learn how rare life is and what conditions it requires. What we discover might support tests and refinements of anthropic reasoning.”
• “How do we get from symmetric laws to asymmetric appearances? (arrow of time problem) ... Why are the fundamental laws symmetric? ("naturality" problem) ...”
• “To me, dark matter is matter. It looks like matter, it quacks like matter, it waddles like matter. It has many, many properties that indicate it's matter. And I think I know what matter it is!”
• “[S]ome scientists focus on ideal beauty, others on empirical truth. My own approach, following a great tradition going back to Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, has been to use beauty as a guide to truth.”

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